Fauci Approves In-Person Voting: ‘There’s No Reason’ Why We Shouldn’t Be Allowed

“I think if carefully done, according to the guidelines, there’s no reason that I can see why that not be the case,” Fauci told ABC News. “If you go and wear a mask, if you observe the physical distancing, and don’t have a crowded situation, there’s no reason why shouldn’t be able to do that.”

Though Fauci advised at-risk people and the physically weak to stay home and use mail-in voting, he nonetheless emphasized that “there’s no reason why we shouldn’t be able to vote in person or otherwise.”
As noted by Fox News, Fauci’s endorsement of in-person voting is markedly different from what you said back in April. “I can’t guarantee it,” he told CNN at the time.

President Trump and his campaign have adamantly opposed mail-in voting, alleging that it offers too many opportunities for fraud. The Biden campaign, on the other hand, has endorsed the practice as contributing to public health safety.

“The President of the United States is sabotaging a basic service that hundreds of millions of people rely upon,” Rapid Response Director Andrew Bates sai on Thursday, “cutting a critical lifeline for rural economies and for delivery of medicines, because he wants to deprive Americans of their fundamental right to vote safely during the most catastrophic public health crisis in over 100 years — a crisis so devastatingly worsened by his own failed leadership that we are now the hardest-hit country in the world by the coronavirus pandemic.”